@gablekevin: yeah, that was frustrating for me too. Finally 2 games in a year with solid female performances, and they really overlooked because of the time they came out. Senua's Sacrifice would probably also be an odd example of best female lead performance as because she had a mental illness, but if the game makes you believe her, that's the best example of great acting with in a game. To think the actress who played her was not an actor is amazing, even more so since her actual body wasn't in the game.
Horizon on the other hand was a strong female lead that no one questioned that she was a badass, with a beautifully unique world, and it was just completely ignored.
I like Nier: Automata's story and its play on the philosophical understandings of why we play games, and the cycle of primal human urges. But, people that only finished the first play through cut themselves short to not see the rest of the game, so they end up looking at the game from the first play through, and see a scantily clad lady lead character and get distracted by it postive/or negative. They don't see that if they finished the games multiple playthroughs that was actually part of the point of the story, where we play games to to fulfill our primal instincts as a form of catharsis, never mind who we might be hurting by enjoying these things, because we aren't questioning what our lizard brain's want.
*not sure if i should include spoilers here, or if that would essentially make my point worse, by hiding information that would encourage people to play a game.
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